Jazz. Episode Eight, Risk
Summary
Between 1945 and 1955 jazz splinters into different camps: cool and hot, East and West, traditional and modern. One by one, the big bands leave the road, but Duke Ellington keeps his band together, while Louis Armstrong puts together a small group, the "All-Stars." Promoter Norman Granz insists on e... Full description
- Trying to play clean
- This is my home
- Sustained intensity
- The apostle of hipness
- Monk
- Cool
- The future unlived.